Pakistan are really going to have to work big-time on their fielding if they have any aspirations of making the Quarter Finals. Those misfields tonight were absolutely diabolical and were below U6 level. I just cant understand how a team with the level of talent in their batting and bowling lineups look so disorganized on the field as a group of players. Seems to be a lack of cohesion as a team and no communication in the field, allowing the Zimbots two's which should've only been kept to a single etc. Their performance between tests and ODIs is a world apart and wasn't aware before tonight of them having the second lowest W-L ratio in ODIS over the past 12 months
Looks like it could come down to their last group match vs Ireland, which makes Group B even more interesting. Bad luck to the Zimbots. Were the better team and a win tonight would've put Pakistan out of sight and placed themselves within a stone throws distance of a QF spot, but just couldn't put the Pakis away at the key moments. Reminded me of Afghanistans performance vs Sri Lanka.
Finally, I repeat what I said earlier: great to see the ropes on a larger ground pushed back to where they belong, compared to the MCG where the vertical boundaries are shorter than they should be in order to accommodate another layer of advertising boards and photographers. Made a huge difference today seeing the batsmen having to earn their runs, running the 2s and 3s (which would've been an easy boundary on a smaller ground), even ran a 4 which hasn't happened for a long time. I can't remember the last time I saw a match in Australia with 4 runs that batsmen ran. Would've probably been when the fence was still the boundary at the SCG pre-2001/02 summer.